unless you do something special, (or the library you’re using does it for you), max’ main thread will wait until your method returns. try putting the request into a second thread and using a callback to alert max when it’s done.

Qelem won’t do what you need… my understanding (i’ve never actually had reason to use it myself) is that it will just shunt your slow process to the main thread. That may be all that’s required for something that will take a few milliseconds, but an HTTP request is likely to take several seconds. I would start a new Java thread as demonstrated in the manual.

As the manual also demonstrates, for simple things, you don’t really need a to use a callback function (their example just calls the MaxObject.outlet() from therun() method). If you do find you need or want one, MXJ’s Callback object makes it pretty easy.